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(No Model.) Q I P. W. STARR.

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No. 366,269. Patented July 12, 1887.

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IINITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

FERDINAND W. STARR, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

WHEEL.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,269, dated July 12,1887. Application filed November 23, 1886. Serial No. 219,650. (Nomodel.)

.To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FERDINAND W. STARR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Improvenient in \Vooden Rims for Vehicle-Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

In my application for patent, No. 207,612, to filed July 9, 1886, andallowed November,1886, thin seamless metallic plain rings are fittedinto the rim outside of and around the holes for the spoketenons, toprevent the same from splitting. Now it has been found that corrugated,crimped, orfiuted open rings, orsectional corrugated strips of metal,driven into rims for wheels prevent the same from splitting with equalor even greater advantage than seamless rings plain in outline.Therefore the following specification and accompanying drawingssubstantially set forth my improvement, in which- Figure 1 is a planview showing crimped metallic strips driven crosswise into the rim upon2 opposite sides and outside of the hole for the spoke-tenon to preventthe rim from splitting. Fig. 5 shows said corrugated strips inperspective. Fig. 2 shows thin metal strips crimped and bent intocircular form and driven into the rim outside of and around the hole forthe spoke-tenon, Fig. 6 representing the said ring in perspective. Fig.3 shows a plan View of crimped and curved metal strips or sectionsdriven crosswise into the rim outside of 5 the holes for the spoke-tenonto prevent splitting, Fig. 7 being perspective of said curved corrugatedstrips; Fig. 4, sectional view showing the several metallic strips aslocated in the telly or rim.

By thus, or substantially so, corrugating or crimping these strips orsections of metal several important objects are attained, first, greaterstiffness, and thereby enabling the use of very thin metal andcheapening con- 'struction; second, the fluted or corrugated form driveninto the rim affords greater adhesion, and at the same time interlocksthe tenons, the combination therewith of thin metallic corrugatedstrips-or sections driven into .the rim crosswise of its length,substantially as shown, whereby the corrugations serve to interlock withthe end grain of the wood, and thereby prevent the same from splitting.

2. In a wheel, the combination, with the rim thereof constructed ofwood, of corrugated or fluted metallic strips or sections driven intothe rim outside of the holes in such a manner as to cause the, crimps orcorrugations of the metal strip or strips to interlock with the fiberand grain of the wood, substantially as shown, and thereby prevent therim from splitting.

FERDINAND W. STARR.

Witnesses:

SAML. J. 'WILKERsoN, Ormsn STEWART.

